Hanging carriage-bodies



M. G. HUBBARD.

Running-Gear.

Patented Feb. 12, 1850.

I No. 7,085.

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M. G. HUBBARD, OF HUME, NEW YORK.

\ HANGING CARRIAGE-BODIES.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, M. G. HUBBARD, of Hume,in the county of Allegany and State of New York, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Running-Gear of Carriages, and that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the principle orcharacter which distinguishes them from all other things before knownand of the usual manner of making, modifying, and using the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1, is aside elevation of the carriage. Fig. 2, is a plan of the running gear.

The nature of my invention consists in the peculiar construction andarrangement of the reaches, and in the application of a spring thereto,by which the carriage is supported. The body of the carriage (a), theaxles (6,) and wheels, are of ordinary construction; to the rear end ofthe carriage, near each corner, there is a bar, or reach (0,) aflixed;these extend forward, and are firmly united over the front axle,

7,085, dated February 12, 1850.

to which they are jointed; at the front end of the carriage body, twoother bars, (d,) are jointed, which extend back to the hind axle; at ornear the center of the body, where these reaches cross each other theyare connected by a shankle, (6,), to which a semi-elliptic spring (1b,)is attached, the center of this spring bearing on the shackle, and thetwo ends against the bottom of the carriage; the connections being thoseusual in attaching elliptic springs. By this arrangement I obtain anelastic, substantial, connection between the axles and body of thecarriage, and cheapen its construction.

Having thus fully described my improvement, what I claim therein as new,and for which I desire to secure Letters Patent, is

The combination of cross reaches and spring, substantially in the mannerand for the purpose set forth.

M. G; HUBBARD. WVitnesses:

M. N. EMERSON, E. A. SIGN.

